My dvd renting tendencies found a wonderful new source this week. After multiple suggestions by Bob Turnbull and matthew Price, I finally decided to hit Filmfest DVD’s just one block past my regular subway station. To quote Homer Simpson, “I felt like a kid in some kind of store”. They’ve got an awesome supply of…
This week we return to normal. Normal meaning that I’m only recounting one week’s worth of watching, not that I took in a normal amount of films. I believe the one thing that I’ve established indisputably is that I watch an absolutely abnormal amount of movies. But really, is that news? Three of this week’s…
After a week off to do some Oscar coverage, the regular features are returning to The matinee, including a double-dose of recapping the watching habits. The last two weeks had a heavy emphasis on the new material, and for the most part things just happened to fall that way as none of the queue was…
Got back up to my usual habit this week, and might have even made it another ten-spot had the subway not broken down last night forcing me to make a long walk home. Funny thing about the week’s watches; In the last week I went to as many screenings as I did the entire month…
Down to even fewer watches this week. Perhaps this is the norm, and less the exception? On the bright side, three out of my five were first-timers, and two of the five were on a big screen. So I suppose the motto that could be assigned to this week is quality over quantity. The next…
I’m down a quart this week, but it wasn’t for lack of trying. In the span of one week I got a screening time wrong and showed up late, had a projector break before the film even started, and thought a desired title would be on-demand only to find out I was wrong. making that…
Turned into a rather busy week with a few nights at the bar catching up with friends, and a rare mid-week recording of The Matineecast. Thus no trips to a theatre this week, but hey…one week out of the year won’t kill me And even though most of these were mulligans, it made a pretty…
